Landry shows up at Matt's house. Matt starts teasing him, asking how the big date was, and Landry is actually somewhat hurt. He says that Matt thinks of him as just a big joke, the comic relief to the star quarterback. So...he's just kinda reading off his character description for the show? A little bit? No, we love our Landry. Matt sincerely asks what's wrong, and Landry eventually tells him everything and swears him to secrecy. Matt asks if he's told the cops, and Landry says no and keeps repeating that he doesn't know what to do. Poor kid. Remember the care-free days of Crucifictorious? Matt insists that he has to tell someone. Landry again looks Conflicted.
Coach returns home to find Tami on the phone, trying in vain to get in touch with Tyra. He kisses her until she hangs up, then pull out a bottle of bubbly. She sort of gets excited but is still wary and tries to make sure he didn't say yes yet. He ignores this and tells her how it all went down, how the other coaches were all over him, and that he accepted the job. Then he goes on to gush about how awesome the stadium is, how wonderful Austin is (with all of its excellent balleters), while Tami just smiles politely but looks like she may be screaming inside.
The two knock at Julie's door and find her doing some homework on her bed. They enter and sit down on the bed with that sort of air that means that a major, life-changing announcement is coming. Poor Julie senses this almost immediately, then her father gives her the news and she starts crying. Cut to a little while later, as Julie slowly makes her way up to Matt's front porch, still crying. He answers the door and she tells him that her dad took a new job and that she's moving. They hug and she sobs some more, while Matt just looks...well, I'm not sure what that look is. He's sad and pissed and something else all at the same time. Damn these teenagers and their complex emotions!
Jason arrives for his first day as a Dillon Panthers coach, and he's apparently fifteen minutes late, which Coach is none too happy about. Coach calls in Matt and asks if he feels ready for the big game, to which Matt stutters that he is. Well, Jason doesn't think so. Neither does Coach. They quickly trade lines about how unprepared Matt is, and dammit it's just adorable. "I don't want you resting on your laurels, you understand me?" "Have any laurels Saracen?" "Not a damn laurel." Hehe. Coach informs Matt that he is to do whatever Jason tells him to, up to and including jumping off a cliff. Jason smirks harder than I ever thought a human being could possibly smirk. Jason barks at Matt to finish his weights, then meet him for lunch, because from now on they're lunch buddies. Matt stammers that he usually has lunch with Julie, but Jason is having none of that and barks some more. Matt scampers away, and Jason smirks himself right out of existence.
Landry is in Tami's office, talking to her about the assault on his anonymous "friend". He's worried that if he tells her, the law will require her to report it to the police. Tami, ever the tactful woman, gently suggests that if the "friend" he's talking about is in fact himself, he can be honest with her. Landry denies this and finally caves, telling her that it was Tyra. Wooo! Crucifictorious roxx!!
Tami of course immediately shows up on Tyra's doorstep. Tyra looks pissed to see her, to say the least, and stares daggers out into the driveway, where Landry is stewing in the car. Cut to the police station, where Tyra is getting grilled by some dumpy guy about the details of whether or not she left her notebook or something. He looks as if he doesn't believe her. Tyra is sooo done with this and is ready to leave, but not before they take a few pictures and further cement her permanent humiliation.
She stalks out of the police station to find Landry sitting on the curb, waiting for her. He stammers out an apology, but hell hath no fury like a Collette scorned. She sobs that she never should have trusted him, and that he's "just a pathetic smelly geek!" Nice teenage language, that. Tyra seems younger and younger with each episode. She'll end up as a baby next season (fingers crossed) (that there will be a next season, not that Tyra will turn into a fetus).
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Comments (15)
I don't even know if I can handle it. My heart hurt just reading the recap of an episode I saw twice.
1 of 15 | Posted by punkrox | Posted on April 10, 2007 9:07 AM
Great recap! I really hope NBC announces soon that this show is renewed next year - it's awesome.
2 of 15 | Posted by sluggerbun
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Posted on April 10, 2007 9:18 AM
WOO-HOO!! STATE, BABY!!
(glad to see I'm not the only person who's been driving around all week yelling that out the driver's side window at random strangers, screampillar.)
Please god let them renew this show. Not only is it the most coherent, consistent drama on TV at the moment, with the most likable and well-rounded cast of characters, but it manages week in and out to comment objectively and honestly on the 'big issues' without seeming the least bit forced or heavy-handed. Perhaps Tami is a bit too saintly, but her self-righteous streak and her refusal to be a traditional 'Coach's Wife' who subordinates all of her goals and wishes to her husband's career make her uniquely appealing (and Connie B. is just brilliant and should win all the awards and the moon over Texas to boot).
But something just occurred to me: Smash, Riggins, Tyra, Jason, Lyla--aren't most of the kids seniors? Matt, Julie, and Landry (love that the truth-telling nerd of the show is named after Texas' most beloved football coach) are all underclassmen, but how exactly can this show maintain focus without having to send off its young stars? Will Coach Taylor turn down the TMU job (it happens--just last week, a top-level basketball coach accepted a job at the Univ. of Arkansas and then changed his mind the day after the press conference, explaining that the move wasn't right for his family), or will the show try to split its plotlines between Dillon and Austin? I can't imagine having a different Panthers coach, but that scenario might enable to writers to believably keep the characters on the verge of graduating and moving away in the picture.
Of course, they'll probably get kept around by a hard dose of undeserved tragedy like Jason's accident. I can't stand when bad stuff happens to characters we care about, but there's the proof in the pudding: we care. The FNL team has us all invested, as if the kids' triumphs and heartaches were actually happening and we really needed to go for two with time expiring to live to play another day.
STATE, BABY!! WOO-HOO!!
3 of 15 | Posted by jack | Posted on April 10, 2007 10:53 AM
I heard that they decided to renew this show at the same time as 30 Rock, but they're waiting to announce it because they don't know where they want to put it in the schedule yet. I love FNL so, so much, so I'm glad, if this is true.
4 of 15 | Posted by schoonie | Posted on April 10, 2007 10:57 AM
They can't move Coach to Austin. Then the show would be SNL and we already have one! Just kidding. There will be more, have faith.
5 of 15 | Posted by Tony A.
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Posted on April 10, 2007 11:22 AM
Wow, only one more episode left! What a great season it's been. If they don't renew this show, I will be seriously pissed!
Can't wait to see what happens with the Taylors...I don't like to see my beloved Coach and Tami on the outs!
OMG, I cannot wait to watch tomorrow night!!!! FNL rocks!!
Great recap Screampillar! :)
6 of 15 | Posted by Jojobear
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Posted on April 10, 2007 12:14 PM
Okay, so Ausiello at TV Guide now says NBC has ordered six more scripts for FNL. He says it's the "next best thing" and thinks renewal is more or less in the bag.
Great recap! The father/daughter Battle of the Pouty Lips is on!
7 of 15 | Posted by alex | Posted on April 10, 2007 1:08 PM
#8 was me. Damn TypeKey!
8 of 15 | Posted by JasonR
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Posted on April 10, 2007 2:09 PM
Great recap Screampillar! I can't believe this season's almost over, but it's been such a surprisingly awesome show. I just wish more people would realize how great it is and wacth this instead of a lot of the crap that's on tv. I love all of these characters and it still surprises me how every single one is such perfectly casted.
I started laughing at your Crucificotrious references screampillar, haha. Poor Landry, although I do think his words will have an impact on Tyra and her dragged on relationship with Tim.
This show better still be around for a second season because it's hand down the best show on tv right now.
Oh yeah, and I hope that Suzie can just leave because she just sucks.
9 of 15 | Posted by Triks
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Posted on April 10, 2007 2:36 PM
P.S.: SENIORS RUUUUULE!!! TEXAS FOREVER!! STATE, BABY!! WOO-HOO!!
10 of 15 | Posted by jack
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Posted on April 10, 2007 4:48 PM
One of the funniest details in the show: When Tim Riggins shows up for breakfast seconds after falling out the window, the kid is wearing a t-shirt on which he wrote something like "Go Panthers" on the front and "Tim Riggins 33" on the back. Awesome.
11 of 15 | Posted by shimmer | Posted on April 10, 2007 5:17 PM
I think that the only person that has definetly been identified as a senior was Street. It would seem to follow that Riggins is a senior, since they have been best friends, have the whole "Texas Forever" thing going, etc. But, they could always come up that he was a Junior - maybe he got held back in 3rd grade or something!
I'm pretty sure Smash is NOT a Senior. Remember the whole story line with the recruiter and the steroids, etc. I was thinking that there was a lot of "there's always next year" advice to him, which would make him a Junior, or younger.
Lyla and Tyra, we don't know. I think Landry, Saracen, and Julie are definetly younger.
Quite frankly, I could care less if they did a little "90210" or "Grey's Anatomy" time warping. This show is so good, I could believe the kids are in high school for 10 years, if it meant I got 10 years of the show.
12 of 15 | Posted by lawyergal
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Posted on April 11, 2007 6:57 AM
check it out guys! NBC ordered 6 new scripts of FNL for next year! Looks promising! Here's the link, I hope it works...
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/11/television.lights.reut/index.html
13 of 15 | Posted by Jojobear
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Posted on April 11, 2007 11:38 AM
thanks for the link, jojobear!
my fingers are crossed - this show is too good to lose
and they also finally showed us some good football last night! (though i will wait for the new recap to comment further)
14 of 15 | Posted by lovedoctor
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Posted on April 12, 2007 6:48 AM
Saw the finale last night....wonderful.....God I love this show.
15 of 15 | Posted by sweetleaf
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Posted on April 12, 2007 8:29 AM